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Category Archives: Canadian author/illustrator
The Honeybee
The Honeybee is a delightful picture book about the joy of a bee racing and chasing and zooming from flower to flower. There’s a bit of rhyme in the narration, but an excited, buzzing sort of narration as if it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Books with science links, Canadian author/illustrator, Love that art, Picture books
Tagged bees, honeybees, picture book, rhyme
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The Girl and the Wolf
As I’ve mentioned before, I’m interested in Little Red Riding Hood versions, and Katherena Vermette‘s The Girl and the Wolf is an interesting one. Vermette, who is Métis, was inspired by both traditional stories and European fairy tales. Beautiful illustrations … Continue reading
Mary Who Wrote Frankenstein
First off, Júlia Sardà’s illustrations are the perfect mix of shadowy angles for a biography of a horror writer. The double page spread of Castle Frankenstein (a real place! and inspiration, perhaps, for Mary’s famous title) uses a limited dark … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Canadian author/illustrator, Nonfiction, Picture books
Tagged Frankenstein, picture book biography
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The Mushroom Fan Club
The cover and the title drew me to this book. The Mushroom Fan Club by Elise Gravel is shelved under graphic novel at my library, looks more like an easy reader, but I think it’s most like a picture book–an incredibly … Continue reading
Square
The world is divided on whether they love, hate or just don’t get these books by Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen. I fall firmly in the former camp. Square is visually innovative and brings in a bit of philosophy for … Continue reading
Posted in Canadian author/illustrator, Love that art, Picture books
Tagged humourous, philosophy, picture book
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Bloom: A Story of Fashion Designer Elsa Schiaparelli
A little girl in Rome who hates having her picture taken grows up into an international fashion designer. Inspired by beautiful, bold flowers, Elsa Schiaparelli imagines many amazing scenarios and when she’s grown, she becomes an artist–a dressmaker. “To be … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Canadian author/illustrator, Picture books
Tagged design, history, imagination, picture book biography
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Bertolt
I love this sweetly strange book about being different, being a loner and loving a 55-year-old oak. Bertolt by Jacques Goldstein (translated from the French by Claudia Zoe Bedrick) is lovely and though the storyline meanders a bit, I love the … Continue reading
The Nest
The Nest is a haunting and surreal book about a boy named Steve whose newborn brother is born with a host of medical problems that require surgeries and hospitalizations. Through Steve’s dreams and his conversations with the knife man, we see … Continue reading
Bug In A Vacuum
Bug in a Vacuum is so much more than a picture book. First off, it’s way more than 32 pages. Those pages, though, are jam-packed with fabulous illustrations, funny anecdotes that move the story forward and…a bug and dog. The dog … Continue reading
Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Friendship
Kate and Pippin: An Unlikely Friendship by Martin Springett and photographed by Isobel Springett is the true story of a rescued fawn the mutual caring that developed with a Great Dane. Sweet and unlikely, yes, but even more interesting is what happens after … Continue reading
Posted in Books with science links, Canadian author/illustrator, Easy Readers, Nonfiction
Tagged animals, deer, dogs, friendship, unlikely friendship
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